Can Dinosaurs Save Acclaim?
Its Turok video game may help stave off extinction
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A thick fog has descended. You're wounded, and you're out of ammo. Fierce predators circle for the kill.
The scene is from Acclaim Entertainment Inc.'s new video game, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. But it could just as easily describe the dire straits at the Glen Cove (N.Y.) software company. Awash in inventory of poor-selling games, Acclaim lost $221 million on revenues of $376 million in its 1996 fiscal year, ended Aug. 31, and $19 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1997.